OH THE HORROR! A interactive horror experience

This website is not fully interactive but it will sure give you the chills.  

Horror stories.  They are always fun.  Right?  Nothing like sitting on the edge of the seat and then suddenly BAM! Something dreadful happens that sends someone screaming or cowering in their seat as they try to hide themselves behind their hands or loved one. 

TAKE THIS LOLLIPOP

Take this Lolipop, written and directed by Bobby Jameson is a great flash and facebook linked webstie.  It puts you, whoever YOU are, in the main seat of chills.  Do you dare to take the lollipop 

"Take This Lollipop is a 2011 interactive horror short film and Facebook app, written and directed by Jason Zada, which uses the Facebook Connect application to bring viewers themselves into the film, through use of pictures and messages from their own Facebook profiles. Starring actor Bill Oberst Jr. as 'The Facebook Stalker', the film acts to personalize and underscore the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about oneself on the internet.. The information gathered from a viewer's Facebook profile by the film's app is used once, and then deleted."

Now let's turn up the horror and interactivity.  

AMERICAN HORROR STORY.  

Yes, the LA Murder House (which actually exists in LA).  They use to have a website known as YOUAREGOINGTODIEINTHERE but, that was a promo site a few years ago.  Since then I have been able to dig up some archive site they still have running which puts you, the viewer, in the horror seat yet again.  My friends, welcome to THE MURDER HOUSE .

 This is NOT for the weak, faint of heart, easily startled or horror haters.  (or kids....not for kids!).  Go through the house collecting items, seeing scenes, and explore.  Unravel the truths and the dark past of the murder house.  You do put in your address and birthday, but it all ties in to make the interactive story more fun.   GO head, try yourself, try to survive and find out the past. 

Studio/Artist Exploration

Fox and Crow

http://www.foxcrow.com/

This site is reads like a clever resume`. It's interactive as well as informative. The design is beautiful and interesting with a little twist in each room that you are lead into by hints of smoke that unlock the extra features.

The graphics are very life like in each scene. It seems they incorporated images as well as renderings to accomplish a very realistic setting in each experience. Lights flicker, the fireplace crackles a spider moves along a web and, as you mouse across the screen the entire screen seems to move or float. If you run the cursor over the chandelier it sways as if you hit it.

As you move around the screen faded icons appear that will direct you to something within that screen.

Each room is unique and has something new to explore. In the studio setting you can click on the design table and it takes you to a page that becomes an interactive art board where can choose a brush and has a choice of colors so that you can run the brush across the page and it creates different designs instantly. You can then erase anywhere on the screen and redo the area with few art.

I like the fact that they made it classy and sophisticated. I believe these two gentleman must be older. The rooms have a retro feel combined with today's technology. I do wish they had just a little more interaction in some of the rooms but they do state that we should visit often because it will be evolving as time goes on.

Some of their clients are Mtv, Urban Outfitters, Haagen Daz, Nokia, Pixar,  Cocacola, Tommy Bahama and Nike, just to name a few.

Their capabilities are interactive experiences, digital campaigns, brand strategy, and development visual design and production, mobile applications, UX/UI Design, 3D modeling and compositing motion graphics and animation and casual gaming and social media.

Justin Bird

http://www.justinbird.com/work_blobs.html

This site is full of different things to look at. Justin has created flash websites and a plethora of games to view and interact with. He also illustrates

When you first enter Jason site the blue bird in the left upper corner flaps his wings when you scroll over. Justin's designs are very strong and detailed. He's really mastered his graphics.

The second icon in on the top of his flash games is actually an advertisement for a country singer. It's a game about the song and the song is about drinking too much. It's pretty funny because you can upload your own picture as the character that is doing the drinking.

5 rows down on the left he created a make a pizza game that evolves and is pretty fun. I'm definitely going to book mark this site for future use.

Justin creates these really cool flash websites for musicians to promote their songs by allowing the viewer to upload pictures to the website. It automatically loads and you and your friends (or whoever you uploaded) is now in the video. Very cool.

One of his links called "lip service" on his "other stuff" page no longer (unfortunately, it looks really funny) work but the majority of what he has done is very interactive will keep the visiter very busy.

This site is his resume'. I think it's a very cleaver way to promote what he does.